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What a rollercoaster! Thanks to Panorama Films, The Vintner’s Luck is finally coming to the U.S!! We THANK YOU for all your support, comments, shout outs, time and love. This is real indie movie work, and what I love about that- is the real response of real people on a real topic. We made the film to get into a challenging, spiritual topic…how do we contend with the truth that good and evil are one? That’s the human condition, that’s us. The film is both, the response has been both, and the conversations the film has inspired are moving and provocative. A film is for an audience, that’s it, that’s all, that’s everything. And my blog today is full of GRATITUDE for every person who’s given this film a single thought.

Our first screening was at the Sedona International Film Festival, where it won Best Foreign Film. Thank you that heartfelt show of support. When I heard that the film would touch down in the US at Sedona, I couldn’t believe it…it felt like the perfect city for this film, and… it’s the hometown of Za Rinpoche!! That’s a co incidence that’s more than a coincidence 🙂

We’ve posted new video clips of Za Rinpoche and Niki on our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thevintnersluck
More to come in the following days! If you’d like LIKE us on Facebook. It’ll help us get the film to your city!

A message from Jane Mason who attended the Vintner’s Luck special Rialto screening and Q & A on Saturday night.

What an inspiring evening! Questions were quite different from a Q and A I’d attended previously – more thoughtful, more probing. And as the audience settled in post the 10min mark, more open and honest. The Panelists were equally honest and generous. An experience that enhanced an already meaningful film for me. Thank you all involved!

We’re excited to share the audio podcast of “Unity and Duality: When Angel and Demon Are One” The Ven. Rinpoche, Director Niki Caro and Screenwriter Joan Scheckel discuss the themes of “The Vintner’s Luck”. We hope this will be the beginning of a wider dialogue with all of you. Check back soon! We hope you will post your comments and questions.

ZaChoeje Rinpoche will have a post-screening dialogue of the Vintner’s Luck to discuss themes of Buddhism and how they relate to art as well as the film. After viewing the film, Za Choeje Rinpoche stated;

I loved it very much. I think…the film is a great metaphor about life. It teaches… about hope, acceptance and balance.

Rinpoche studied at the Drepung Loseling Monastery and received the Geshe Lharampa degree, equal to a doctorate in Tibetan Buddhism. After leading the Mystical Arts of Tibet cultural tour in America in 1998, he traveled to Phoenix with a group of monks, where he found himself personally drawn to the desert. He decided to settle there and began teaching. On September 10, 2001, he, together with Dharma friends and students, founded Emaho Foundation.